Wouter Souffriau

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
28 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Wouter Souffriau is a scholar working on Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Automotive Engineering and Transportation. According to data from OpenAlex, Wouter Souffriau has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, 12 papers in Automotive Engineering and 5 papers in Transportation. Recurrent topics in Wouter Souffriau's work include Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods (18 papers), Transportation and Mobility Innovations (12 papers) and Transportation Planning and Optimization (5 papers). Wouter Souffriau is often cited by papers focused on Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods (18 papers), Transportation and Mobility Innovations (12 papers) and Transportation Planning and Optimization (5 papers). Wouter Souffriau collaborates with scholars based in Belgium and Spain. Wouter Souffriau's co-authors include Pieter Vansteenwegen, Dirk Van Oudheusden, Greet Vanden Berghe, Patrick De Causmaecker, Kenneth Sörensen, Peter Demeester, Ander García, Olatz Arbelaitz, María Teresa Linaza and Jannes Verstichel and has published in prestigious journals such as European Journal of Operational Research, Expert Systems with Applications and Journal of the Operational Research Society.

In The Last Decade

Wouter Souffriau

21 papers receiving 1.8k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The orienteering problem: A survey

2010 667 citations Pieter Vansteenwegen, Wouter Souffriau et al. European Journal of Operational Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wouter Souffriau Belgium	13	1.2k	553	428	319	307	28	1.9k
Hoong Chuin Lau Singapore	27	1.2k 1.0×	568 1.0×	421 1.0×	426 1.3×	432 1.4×	199	2.6k
Grammati Pantziou Greece	22	297 0.2×	323 0.6×	381 0.9×	153 0.5×	240 0.8×	103	2.4k
Aldy Gunawan Singapore	19	753 0.6×	310 0.6×	166 0.4×	263 0.8×	152 0.5×	65	1.2k
Charalampos Konstantopoulos Greece	22	288 0.2×	317 0.6×	379 0.9×	151 0.5×	188 0.6×	75	2.1k
Juan‐José Salazar‐González Spain	34	2.7k 2.2×	1.0k 1.8×	436 1.0×	835 2.6×	495 1.6×	105	3.4k
Tom Holvoet Belgium	24	303 0.3×	455 0.8×	183 0.4×	199 0.6×	818 2.7×	205	2.3k
Frits Spieksma Belgium	27	1.5k 1.2×	188 0.3×	174 0.4×	142 0.4×	218 0.7×	166	2.5k
Renato F. Werneck United States	21	696 0.6×	294 0.5×	318 0.7×	271 0.8×	284 0.9×	44	1.8k
Luiz Satoru Ochi Brazil	23	1.7k 1.4×	673 1.2×	91 0.2×	566 1.8×	448 1.5×	118	2.3k
Jakob Puchinger France	22	1.5k 1.3×	1.5k 2.7×	658 1.5×	689 2.2×	337 1.1×	57	3.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Wouter Souffriau

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wouter Souffriau

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Verstichel, Jannes, et al.. (2011). A mixed integer programming approach to the aircraft weight and balance problem. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences. 20. 1051–1059. 12 indexed citations

García, Ander, Pieter Vansteenwegen, Olatz Arbelaitz, Wouter Souffriau, & María Teresa Linaza. (2011). Integrating public transportation in personalised electronic tourist guides. Computers & Operations Research. 40(3). 758–774. 85 indexed citations

Souffriau, Wouter, Pieter Vansteenwegen, Greet Vanden Berghe, & Dirk Van Oudheusden. (2011). The Multiconstraint Team Orienteering Problem with Multiple Time Windows. Transportation Science. 47(1). 53–63. 106 indexed citations

Vansteenwegen, Pieter, Wouter Souffriau, Greet Vanden Berghe, & Dirk Van Oudheusden. (2010). The City Trip Planner: An expert system for tourists. Expert Systems with Applications. 38(6). 6540–6546. 188 indexed citations

Souffriau, Wouter, Pieter Vansteenwegen, Greet Vanden Berghe, & Dirk Van Oudheusden. (2010). The planning of cycle trips in the province of East Flanders. Omega. 39(2). 209–213. 56 indexed citations

Vansteenwegen, Pieter, Wouter Souffriau, & Dirk Van Oudheusden. (2010). The orienteering problem: A survey. European Journal of Operational Research. 209(1). 1–10. 667 indexed citations breakdown →

Vansteenwegen, Pieter & Wouter Souffriau. (2010). Trip Planning Functionalities: State of the Art and Future. Information Technology & Tourism. 12(4). 305–315. 14 indexed citations

Demeester, Peter, Wouter Souffriau, Patrick De Causmaecker, & Greet Vanden Berghe. (2009). A hybrid tabu search algorithm for automatically assigning patients to beds. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. 48(1). 61–70. 92 indexed citations

Vansteenwegen, Pieter, Wouter Souffriau, & Ander García. (2009). Personalized tourist guide: multi-constraint team orienteering problem with time windows. Lirias (KU Leuven). 76. 2 indexed citations

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Souffriau, Wouter, Pieter Vansteenwegen, Greet Vanden Berghe, & Dirk Van Oudheusden. (2009). A Path Relinking approach for the Team Orienteering Problem. Computers & Operations Research. 37(11). 1853–1859. 88 indexed citations

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Vansteenwegen, Pieter, Wouter Souffriau, & Kenneth Sörensen. (2009). Solving the mobile mapping van problem: A hybrid metaheuristic for capacitated arc routing with soft time windows. Computers & Operations Research. 37(11). 1870–1876. 24 indexed citations

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Souffriau, Wouter, Pieter Vansteenwegen, Greet Vanden Berghe, & Dirk Van Oudheusden. (2008). Automated Parameterisation of a Metaheuristic for the Orienteering Problem. Adaptive and multilevel Metaheuristics. Lirias (KU Leuven). 2 indexed citations

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Souffriau, Wouter, et al.. (2008). Dynamic scheduling of multi-media streams in home automation systems. Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agents Systems. 1683–1684. 1 indexed citations

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Souffriau, Wouter, Pieter Vansteenwegen, Greet Vanden Berghe, & Dirk Van Oudheusden. (2008). Solving the aircraft weight and balance problem by exact and heuristic algorithms. 1 indexed citations

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Souffriau, Wouter, et al.. (2008). A PERSONALIZED TOURIST TRIP DESIGN ALGORITHM FOR MOBILE TOURIST GUIDES. Applied Artificial Intelligence. 22(10). 964–985. 158 indexed citations

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Souffriau, Wouter, et al.. (2008). Dynamic Scheduling of Multi-media Streams in Home Automation Systems (Demo Paper). 1 indexed citations

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Vansteenwegen, Pieter, Wouter Souffriau, Greet Vanden Berghe, & Dirk Van Oudheusden. (2008). A guided local search metaheuristic for the team orienteering problem. European Journal of Operational Research. 196(1). 118–127. 126 indexed citations

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Vansteenwegen, Pieter, Wouter Souffriau, & Dirk Van Oudheusden. (2007). Personalized Mobile Tourist Guide: Guided Local Search for the Team Orienteering Problem. 25–29. 1 indexed citations

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Souffriau, Wouter, Pieter Vansteenwegen, Greet Vanden Berghe, & Dirk Van Oudheusden. (2006). Multi-Level Metaheuristics for the Orienteering Problem. 1–5. 3 indexed citations

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Souffriau, Wouter, Pieter Vansteenwegen, & Dirk Van Oudheusden. (2006). Developing an electronic tourist guide: the automated planning of touristic trips. 1 indexed citations

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